I-ching # 58/16

OK, so lets see how this will work out. On Friday morning LZ gave me an ad. The Boat supply store, at the Marine Yard where I keep my boat was looking for store help. Cool I thought. I'll send them a resume.

Friday night I thought, hmm I'll do a reading on my chances of this.
The question: "How does it look me working at SVN?"

Reading:

58. Tui / The Joyous, Lake

  above TUI  THE JOYOUS, LAKE
  below TUI  THE JOYOUS, LAKE

This hexagram, like sun, is one of the eight 

formed by doubling of a trigram. 
The trigram Tui denotes the youngest daughter;

it is symbolized by the 
smiling lake, and its attribute is joyousness. 

Contrary to appearances, it is not 
the yielding quality of the top line that 

accounts for joy here. The attribute of 
the yielding or dark principle is not joy 

but melancholy. However, joy is 
indicated by the fact that there are two 

strong lines within, expressing 
themselves through the medium of gentleness.
  True joy, therefore, rests on firmness and 

strength within, manifesting itself 
outwardly as yielding and gentle.

 THE JUDGMENT

 THE JOYOUS. Success.
 Perseverance is favorable.

The joyous mood is infectious and therefore 

brings success. But joy must be 
based on steadfastness if it is not to 

degenerate into uncontrolled mirth. 
Truth and strength must dwell in the heart,

while gentleness reveals itself in 
social intercourse. In this way one assumes 

the right attitude toward God and 
man and achieves something. Under certain

conditions, intimidation 
without gentleness may achieve something 

momentarily, but not for all 
time. When, on the other hand, the hearts 

of men are won by friendliness, 
they are led to take all hardships upon 

themselves willingly, and if need be 
will not shun death itself, so great 

is the power of joy over men.

 THE IMAGE

 Lakes resting one on the other:
 The image of THE JOYOUS.
 Thus the superior man joins with his friends
 For discussion and practice.

A lake evaporates upward and thus gradually 

dries up; but when two lakes 
are joined they do not dry up so readily, 

for one replenishes the other. It is 
the same in the field of knowledge. Knowledge 

should be a refreshing and 
vitalizing force. It becomes so only through 

stimulating intercourse with 
congenial friends with whom one holds discussion 

and practices application 
of the truths of life. In this way learning 

becomes many-sided and takes on a 
cheerful lightness, whereas there is always 

something ponderous and one-
sided about the learning of the self-taught.

 THE LINES

 Nine at the beginning means:
 Contented joyousness. Good fortune.

A quiet, wordless, self-contained joy, desiring

nothing from without and 
resting content with everything, remains free of 

all egotistic likes and dislikes. 
In this freedom lies good fortune, because it 

harbors the quiet security of a 
heart fortified within itself.

 ° Nine in the second place means:
 Sincere joyousness. Good fortune.
 Remorse disappears.

We often find ourselves associating with

inferior people in whose company 
we are tempted by pleasures that are 

inappropriate for the superior man. To 
participate in such pleasures would 

certainly bring remorse, for a superior 
man can find no real satisfaction in 

low pleasures. When, recognizing this, a 
man does not permit his will to swerve, 

so that he does not find such ways 
agreeable, not even dubious companions 

will venture to proffer any base 
pleasures, because he would not enjoy them.

Thus every cause for regret is 
removed.


 ° Nine in the fifth place means:
 Sincerity toward disintegrating influences

is dangerous.

Dangerous elements approach even the far 

best of men. If a man permits 
himself to have anything to do with them, 

their disintegrating influence acts 
slowly but surely, and inevitable brings 

dangers in its train. But if he 
recognizes the situation and can comprehend 

the danger, he knows how to 
protect himself and remains unharmed.

( this one does not sound that good, 

I need to be be on guard)

16. Yü / Enthusiasm

  above  CHêN  THE AROUSING, THUNDER
  below  K'UN  THE RECEPTIVE, EARTH


The strong line in the fourth place, that

of the leading official, meets with 
response and obedience from all the other

lines, which are all weak. The 
attribute of the upper trigram, Chên, is

movement; the attributes of K'un, the 
lower, are obedience and devotion. This 

begins a movement that meets with 
devotion and therefore inspires enthusiasm,

carrying all with it. Of great 
importance, furthermore, is the law of

movement along the line of least 
resistance, which in this hexagram is 

enunciated as the law for natural events 
and for human life.

 THE JUDGMENT

 ENTHUSIASM. It furthers one to install 

helpers
 And to set armies marching.

(Hmmm I wonder does this mean I should hit 

up my student who works there to put in a

good word for me )

Soooo, Sat. morning I get a call to come 

in Tues for an intereview. Whoohoo, The 

first interview call in a year.

Even that is something to find JOY in, ne!

Ok, so lets see what's next. Sometimes I read 

what I want to see not what it fully says...

This will be interesting.

to be con't